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Although this could very well be a picture of me finding a new treasure at a favorite nursery, it's actually an illustration by David Catrow for a children's book called Plantzilla.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Weird And Wonderful Foliage Follow-Up June 2015

If you see this for sale and have to have it, you might have a plant addiction problem. Spotted at Wincliff in Indianola, where cell phones don't work for plant searches. From the tag Urginea macrocentra "Hinkly collection from the Drakensberg. A bizzare tubular foliagd 'lily' with equally strange flowers arising atop separate stems cloaked by a frilled prophylactic-like membrane." Please disregard the messy path. I've been using my gardening time to seriously reduce the phyllostachys vivax (Running timber bamboo) grove. Soon, school will be out and whole days will be spent in the garden!

Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex

A great joy in the garden this year is that Fatsia polycarpa 'Needham's Lace' has survived and is putting out new growth.

Trevesia palmata 'Micholitzii' putting out new leaves. Can you see why a common name is Snowflake Aralia?

That crazy hirsute begonia, also from Windcliff plants at an early spring sale at Heronswood is growing like crazy! Below is Monadenium ritchiei

Darlingtonia californica

Sarracenia hybrid

Not much has changed in the danger gardenette since last time but I love passing by this area.

Foliage Follow-Up is hosted by Pam Penick at Digging each month on the day after bloom day to remind us of the important role foliage plays in the garden. Be sure to click over to her blog to see foliage that's tickling the fancy of gardeners this month.

It's a wonderful plant that may be marginally hardy here if given perfect conditions and a mild winter but mine have always come in for the winter. They can take low light conditions in the house so make a nice house plant.

It's hard to photograph because once you're in the grove, it's just there. I let it expand a bit too much and now runners are in lots of places where they shouldn't be. Just a bit more cutting down of poles and then runner digging will commence. Just kicking over the emerging culms has been quite a job! It is nice to have plants other than bamboo and I worry about my 120 year old foundation!

You have the most interesting foliage plants! I bought that same dark Begonia at the same sale, and repotted it, but mine still has only two leaves, while yours still in its nursery pot has more. No fair. Did you give it any special treatment?

First, I left it out in the cold and the one leaf it had died so it went into the greenhouse. It seems to like the heat in there as I visited more of the same batch at Windcliff where they're outside and they're still quite tiny.

Such a varied collection! I don't quite get what is going on in the first picture; requesting updates as it progress :-) Darlingtonia californica appears to be wiping a tear with a handkerchief. Regarding the gardenette: what's blooming top right (in pink), and what is blooming bottom left, that is almost purple, in an orb pot.

The top right is the colorful foliage of Berberis 'Rose Glow', the thing getting ready to bloom in the orange orb pot is a lavender colored echiveria hybrid that came from Rare Plant Research in Oregon.

Love that Fatsia polycarpa, I'm anxious to try one in my own garden! I've had the common F. japonica for several years--my plants took a hit the last 2 winters but have survived and are recovering somewhat.

What Ricki said... Both Fatsias are swoon-worthy, and I'm very intrigued with what the Urginea will eventually offer. Yes please post updates. Like you, I tend to fall hard for the weird and wondrous. :)

You have so many interesting foliage plants, you have something different to show us each time! Love the Trevesia, what a fantastic leaf that is, I haven't heard of it over here, maybe I will have to try and track it down!

Now that I have a greenhouse, if I ever see that Trevesia for sale I'm snapping it up. Well, maybe as long as it's under $50 or so. But other than that, space and other practical considerations be damned!

Hey Evan, try calling Glasshouse Works. It's not listed on their site but a few years ago, they sent me one in a 4' pot. They said that they had a few "kicking around." It's worth a try. http://www.glasshouseworks.com/

About Me

Why Outlaw Gardener? I like to break the rules of good taste, plant placement, and plant hardiness. Also, I have received periodic "love notes" from the city code enforcement officer telling me that my parking strip plants encroach on the city's right-of-way. When expressing my distress over the latest such notice, I exclaimed to my pal Loree (Danger Garden) "I'm an outlaw gardener!" To which she replied,"That would be a good name for a blog."
My first gardens were in Southeast Alaska (zone 3.)I do miss the beauty and community of small-town Alaska but I don't take for granted for a moment how wonderful it is to garden in zone 8.